Hey guys/girls,
About 6 weeks ago I had some ironbark milled into large boards (3000x350ishx50) and got them stacked and drying as best I could. I had them stacked immediately at my parents place where it was milled, and then 4 days later moved it to my place. I sealed the end grain the afternoon that the slabs were milled with two coats of a water based wax (kindly given to me by Allan). There's a pic of it at both locations and don't worry the ratchets went on in the other one, that's just a progress shot is all. I've put some shade cloth and and tarp around the patio to block direct sun, not enough though to restrict airflow.
Reason behind the post is I've just come back to find some end grain cracking and surface checking. Having done some reading it sounds like iron bark is prone to checking, especially at thickness of 50mm so I'm not too concerned about that. The end grain cracking however has me a little worried. Some of the cracks pictured are close to the heart but others pictured were not. I'm wondering whether I'm worrying about something that's nothing, whether I can do anything now to prevent further damage or whether the damage is already done. If it's the latter I'd love some feedback as to where I may have gone wrong.
In the dozens of articles I read about air drying before the milling I kept reading things like "you don't want to end up with really expensive firewood", I really hope that's not the case :o
About 6 weeks ago I had some ironbark milled into large boards (3000x350ishx50) and got them stacked and drying as best I could. I had them stacked immediately at my parents place where it was milled, and then 4 days later moved it to my place. I sealed the end grain the afternoon that the slabs were milled with two coats of a water based wax (kindly given to me by Allan). There's a pic of it at both locations and don't worry the ratchets went on in the other one, that's just a progress shot is all. I've put some shade cloth and and tarp around the patio to block direct sun, not enough though to restrict airflow.
Reason behind the post is I've just come back to find some end grain cracking and surface checking. Having done some reading it sounds like iron bark is prone to checking, especially at thickness of 50mm so I'm not too concerned about that. The end grain cracking however has me a little worried. Some of the cracks pictured are close to the heart but others pictured were not. I'm wondering whether I'm worrying about something that's nothing, whether I can do anything now to prevent further damage or whether the damage is already done. If it's the latter I'd love some feedback as to where I may have gone wrong.
In the dozens of articles I read about air drying before the milling I kept reading things like "you don't want to end up with really expensive firewood", I really hope that's not the case :o
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